HEALTH & SAFETY
Earl Boebert, co-author of “Deepwater Horizon, a systems analysis of the Macondo diasaster”
slow, painstaking way that flight control software is developed and applied to individual solutions, then it should be a help. If it is done in the ‘first to market’, ‘disruptive’ approach beloved of Silicon Valley, it stands a good chance of making things worse.”
LEARNING FROM OUR MISTAKES In the book, Boebert and Blossom discuss that if we humans have any chance of learning from past mistakes and accidents then more data recording is needed across the drilling sector. Te challenge here is how to persuade the likes of BP to invest in such technology. Boebert explains that, “Te investment in a survivable forensic data recorder is minimal, as is shown by their widespread application everywhere else. It’s really just a question of will. “It would be interesting to hear from
The top image shows a symbolic diagram of the blowout preventer (BOP) and its associated equipment. The bottom image shows a simplified version of how the annular preventer was designed to operate
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vendors why cyber chairs or blowout preventer (BOP) controls are not equipped with ‘black boxes’ like the voyage data recorders attached to the bridge of these vessels. It’s pretty amazing that in the 21st century experts have to expend hundreds of hours trying figure out from minimal pressure, pit volume and flow telemetry whether a particular valve was open or closed – and in the end not be able to conclude with confidence.”
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